- Checking out "White Box Linux"
- Posted by Google Mike on January 25th, 2004
Have you guys seen White Box Linux:
http://www.whiteboxlinux.org/
Has anyone tried this? Specifically I'm interested in some of its
features before I commit time to checking it out:
1. What version of this list below does it ship with, if at all?
- Apache Web Server
- PHP
- PostgreSQL
- Quanta Plus
2. Is the PHP hooked up properly in Apache?
3. Can the PHP access the PostgreSQL database properly?
4. Does it provide a pretty boot screen like many of the newer distros
(Ark, Suse, etc.)?
5. What are its limitations versus, say, Fedora (aka "Bug Hat")?
- Posted by Rich Piotrowski on January 26th, 2004
On 25 Jan 2004 15:27:56 -0800, googlemike@hotpop.com (Google Mike)
wrote:
like to think the damn thing works!
reboot it? The answer is no. If you really want one, contribute one!
It was necessarily stripped of a lot of eye candy and RH logos to
comply with copyrights.
its somewhat bleeding edge, experimental nature.
I have been running Whitebox for about a month now on my home server.
It's serving mail, web, ftp, internal file server, news server etc.
Everything I need works fine and it has been solid as a rock.
The people involved in this project have done an excellent job. The
only downside is that it may take a few days before patches appear in
"up2date". This is to be expected in a project like this. If you need
the latest patch right away, you can always get the ".srpm" from the
Redhat mirrors and compile it yourself.
--
"Now are you talking about what it is you know
Or just repeating what it was you heard".
Grace Slick
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- Posted by Google Mike on January 26th, 2004
Rich Piotrowski <abuse@wi.rr.com> wrote in message
Thanks, this was very informative. I'll look into it, then.
